Gunze Sangyo Aqueous

Japan was early to adopt acrylic paints in modelling, and Gunze Sangyo has been in the forefront of the development. Gunze Sangyo Aqueous colours are still some of the finest flowing acrylic airbrush paints available. Thinning may be accomplished with either isopropyl alcohol or Gunze thinner, both producing super-thin, smooth coats.

Gunze Sangyo acrylic numbers ar often given in Japanese kit instructions (i.e. Hasegawa) as "black numbers in white boxes". The paints in Gunze "Mr colour" range, often denoted as "white numbers in black boxes", use different numbering system, and most often do not match the shades given here.

This chart has been last revised in September 2006

Colour name

Comment

FS

Humbrol

Tamiya

Xtracolor

Polly S

Revell

Model Master

H1 Gloss White

Hu:22

T:X-2

H2 Gloss Black

Hu:21

T:X-1

H3 Gloss Red

Hu:19

T:X-7

Rev:31

H4 Gloss Yellow

Hu:69

T:X-8

H5 Gloss Blue

Hu:15

T:X-3

Rev:52?

H6 Gloss Green

Hu:3

T:X-5

H7 Gloss Brown

Hu:10

T:X-9

H8 Silver

Note: Typical for many Hasegawa kits is that when the instruction states 'H8', they often actually mean 'Light grey'!